Marketing and Communications Associate Manager (Ventures & Acquisitions)

About the V&A M+C Team

The global Ventures & Acquisitions (V&A) Marketing + Communications (M+C) team partners with the Accenture business and M+C, and the acquired company, to best deliver on the acquisition strategy and business case, foster cohesion and inspire our teams, so we are truly better together.

About the role

As part of the global Accenture M+C Deal Phase Team, you will be responsible for leading the M+C workstream for the due diligence phase of acquisitions including announcement communications, primarily in Americas.

Your responsibilities:

You will work across deals simultaneously, serving as overall PMO on each deal until handover to the M+C post-merger integration (PMI) Lead.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Adhering to best practices outlined in the deal phase playbook

• Ensuring disciplined project management, and enforcing strict confidentiality 

• Leading the due diligence activity including completing due diligence analysis, providing status updates, leading a due diligence workshop with the target and presenting due diligence M+C findings

• Working with the assembled Marketing & Communications team, and Deal Sponsors, to build core messages around the rationale behind each acquisition

• Hosting weekly calls for each acquisition with relevant M+C team members

• Working with the Brand team on the brand transition plan and presenting it to business sponsors

• Managing the creation of an integrated communications plan that maximises opportunities and reduces risk, and co-ordinating announcement preparation

• Ensuring localisation approach and translations are included, where applicable

• Setting the team up for a seamless handover to the PMI team, identifying areas that may require explicit focus during the integration

• Positioning V&A M+C as a strategic and expert partner that provides guidance and delivers best practices for successful M+C deal diligence and announcement of each Accenture acquisition

Preferred experience:

• Around 6 years of working in marketing and communications. Experience of working with acquisitions as part of a large global organization or remote team would be valuable.

• Managing multiple stakeholders to deliver on time and in line with best practices

• Managing and influencing senior stakeholders

• Key message development

• Finding and implementing solutions to complex business challenges

• Working as part of a remote team, preferably in a global role

• Minimum required education: High School Diploma.

• Advanced English written and spoken.

 

Preferred skills:

• Strong written and oral communication skills. The ability to present and communicate ideas clearly and persuasively at all levels to multiple audiences including Accenture employees, leadership and acquired company employees.

• Strong project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to meet milestones, tight deadlines and communicate status on concurrent projects

• Excellent negotiation, influence, mediation, conflict management and executive stakeholder management skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment

• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time, and prioritize workload and activities

• Good attention to detail and the ability to digest complex information

• Sensitivity to the cultural variances across different countries

• Willingness to participate in virtual meetings outside of regular business hours to accommodate other time zones

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related

What we offer:

• Health and Life Insurance

• Accenture days, 3 additional vacation days

• On site doctor

• Birthday leave

• Internet reimbursement

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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